Amendment filed in HB 45
An amendment was filed in House Bill 45. This is the bill that we have been following and which proposes to add public pools and public bathing areas to the state’s residency restriction statute.
Likely in response to the efforts of our legislative team and many of you who have contacted your lawmakers, it seems nobody will have to move from their existing (compliant) homes, since the trigger date for determining whether someone is subject to the public pool/bathing area is now July 1, 2026.
You can read the amendment here: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/45/Amendment/439963/PDF
It’s still an awful bill and we need to continue speaking out against it. Just know that you won’t be forced to move under this amendment. Just don’t relocate anywhere.
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Praise the Lord and thanks for all F.AC and the volunteers do.
But just like Terrorist who never give up and eventually plan another attack, I am sure the lawmakers will find some other rule, law or ordinance to get us all riled up.
Having said that, F.A.C and other groups are loaded and ready at the defense when the time comes.
As long as they keep thinking of low hanging fruit they believe is there for the pickin’, yes, you are correct they will stay that course, sadly, @CherokeeJack
This is great news. News I kind of spoke about in my other post. Making that retroactive would have crossed the punishment line. Still though I believe this bill will not pass. It violates the very fiber of the Constitution. Banishes tax paying, law abiding citizens and is forced segregation.
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
Perhaps, the person who filed the amendment read the 14th amendment. Maybe even the Civil Rights act of 1964. Begs the question, has SORNA ever been challenged under CRA of 64? Before you all jump on me, yes I know the CRA was based on racial segregation but I personally don’t think it is that far of a leap when over 1 million Americans fall into our class of citizenry. Are repeat bank robbers restricted from living next to or going to a bank? Are DUI offenders forbiden from living next to a bar, or banned from going in them? Just sayin!
Thank you FAC and all those that bombarded with email, letters and phone calls. And also to those who got down on bended knee and said many prayers. A battle has been won, but the WAR rages on.
In the first email FAC sent about this bill I remember something about not being able live near or go to Florida beaches or bodies of water (lakes, rivers). Was this a separate bill or an item that didn’t make it through to this bill? So many of these crazy laws and bills its hard to keep track. Thanks
Does this also mean the ocean front beaches?
Thanks for the updates.
Even a relocation restriction such as this, is tantamount to being able to live almost nowhere. It forces us to have to stay in one location, or virtually leave the state. Ridiculous!
Suffering is the point. That’s always been the point.